The recent congressional cuts to California’s High Speed Rail project are prompting questions in San Francisco about the future of the new Transbay Terminal, which is currently under construction at 1st and Mission streets.

A shelter-in-place order that had been issued for a block in downtown San Francisco when contractors working for the new Transbay Transit Center damaged a gas pipe Wednesday afternoon was lifted after a couple hours.

San Francisco supervisors Tuesday approved the seizure by eminent domain of several properties in the South of Market District to make way for the construction of the new $4 billion Transbay Transit Center.